Hey does anyone want to meet me on the Avenue of the Americas? I’ll pick you up and we’ll take the Joe DiMaggio highway uptown. We can cut across Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the RFK bridge and we’ll park near Citi Field.
I’m a New Yorker. I like the old names. You can rename things all you want, and you can spend $20 million dollars a year to name some bricks anything you want….but I’m going to use the old names. When you refer to a neighborhood as “Clinton” I know you’re a tourist.
I notice Mets fans asking me questions like “Are you heading out to Shea..er, um I mean…”
Shea is a state of mind. It’s where the Mets live.
I propose we all collectively decide to refer to the piece of earth between Northern and Roosevelt, between “the Grand Central” and 126th street as “Shea.”
If I say “heading to Shea” you know what I mean. Let’s not stop. “Shea” can be the place where C-Field (or whatever it winds up being called over the years) stands.
Fans in Baltimore don’t head to “Oriole Park.” I have been to all sorts of events at “The Meadowlands.”
Why can’t we do the same with “Shea?”
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